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Last year Mr. Robot was the monster hit of summer, thrilling audiences with its torn-from-the-headlines plots. The series wound up scoring massive critical acclaim winning both the 2015 Peabody Award and Critics’ Choice Award, as well as earning numerous acting nominations and awards. Now our hero Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) is back to light up this summer with more nail-biting, edge of your seat stories.

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BBC America has announced that cult favorite Orphan Black returns for its fourth season on April 14th at 10.00pm EST.

The sisters have finally settled into some sense of normalcy. Sarah, reunited with her foster mum Mrs S. (Maria Doyle Kennedy), daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler) and the clone original, Kendall Malone (Alison Steadman) at an Icelandic hideout; Alison, enjoying the spoils of the drug trade with husband Donnie (Kristian Bruun) and helping the once rabid Helena settle into domesticity; and Cosima, hard at work on a cure for her illness with lab partner Scott (Josh Vokey). We find Sarah’s battle-worn foster brother Felix (Jordan Gavaris) accepting that he’s been left behind, and trying to pick up the pieces of his life – post ‘clone gate’; and Rachel (Maslany), the clever self-aware clone reunited with her ‘mother,’ Susan Duncan (Rosemary Dunsmore) and attempting a reconciliation. But peace and calm seldom lasts long with this lot and Sarah’s hard won tranquility is disrupted when she receives a call that thrusts her right back in harm’s way. A mysterious ally tied to Beth leads Sarah back to where it all started. She’ll follow Beth’s footsteps into a dangerous relationship with a potent new enemy, heading in a horrifying but familiar direction.

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SYNOPSIS: From Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, this new 10-episode drama series is set in 1970s New York. A ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop, the show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, played by Bobby Cannavale, who is trying to save his company and his soul without destroying everyone in his path.

The new trailer for The X-Files revival premiered last night during Gotham and it ticked off plenty of boxes for X-philes. Mulder, Scully, and Skinner reunited? Check. The iconic “I Want to Believe” poster? Check. A huge government conspiracy looming over everything? Check. The return of the Cigarette Smoking Man? Check. The X-Files is back in a big way and “the truth is still out there”.

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The show documents comedian Will Ferrell’s unique day he experienced on March 12th when he took the field at ten different positions for ten different teams, including the Padres and Dodgers, in five different spring training games at Cactus League ballparks.